royf comments on Utility vs Probability: idea synthesis - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 March 2015 12:30PM

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Comment author: royf 27 March 2015 05:59:01PM *  2 points [-]

This is not unlike Neyman-Pearson theory. Surely this will run into the same trouble with more than 2 possible actions.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 March 2015 12:46:19PM 1 point [-]

No, no real connection Neyman-Pearson. And its fine with more that 2 actions - notice that each action only uses itself in the definition. And u' doesn't event use any actions in its definition.